I've been visiting Szeged in Southern
Hungary surprisingly "often" during the last months. This of course has
a reason: the city seems to be on its way up concerning public transportation.
Track renewals with shared tram/bus lanes, "new" (used) vehicles and a
new trolley bus service - this is very joyful after long years of stagnation!

When you arrive to Szeged by train,
you'll see an overused and neglected train station. The situation is pretty
much the same with the whole city: back, when the neighbouring parts of
Serbia belonged to the Hungarian Monarchy, Szeged was an important traffic
and trading node. It has been regarded as a blind alley afterwards though,
especially after the railway bridge was destroyed in WW2. Unfortunately
the whole city was treated as sort of an unloved stepchild then. Hopefully
this will change in the future!

But back to trams: we first went to the
tram depot at the other end of tram route 1. Most of the people went for
the KT4 cars...

The Bengáli on the left-hand side was built
in 1964 in (and for) Budapest, while the other in 1973 in Debrecen. How
many differences can you spot on their "forehead"? :)

Entry of the champions: the cars 200 and
201 were refurbished here, number 203 was modernised in Prague. The first
two retained their PCC accelerators, while the third one features a chopper
now.

The same three cars again.

Number 200 still has the original dashboard
(along the classic pedal control for the accelerator)...

... while the modernised cars have a "joystick"
and a more ergonomic instrument panel.

The interior...

... of a modernised car.

The reversing control panel.

Under construction.

These meter-gauge Tatra bogies belong to
the KT4's bought from Cottbus. The cars themselves are in Prague right
now, undergoing a modernisation - unfortunately they won't receive a new
low-floor middle part, as it was originally planned.

I spotted two PCC accelerator "drums" among
this heap of spare parts. Can you find them on this picture? :)

These ex-Berlin KT4's were bought from
a german company who have been doing reparatures for the Berlin transit
operator. They retained their old livery and looks.

The dashboard...

... and interior of one of the ex-Berlin
cars.

Tatra T6A2H in the air.

After visiting the tram depot, we rode
all tram lines with one of the KT4's.

Here we are at Tarján, joint terminus
of route 3/3F and 4.

Because there's no reversing loop or triangle
at Tarján (yet!), we were forced to go retrogade...

... for the rest of the route...

... until we reached the other terminus
on the one-track section to Kecskés.

We also rode the other one-track line,
route 3F...

... which has a level crossing with the
state railways. Here's our KT4 crossing the "big railway" tracks in reverse!

At the end of the day we witnessed the
typical peak traffic at the main train station: the Tatra T6A2H double-sets
are gladly welcomed when the late evening trains arrive! Running two-car
sets is a relatively new thing - earlier they simply sent out Bengális
in order to cater the traffic.